Assistant Editor
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Job Summary
We are seeking a law graduate with some experience in a Legal or publishing environment to join the Practical Law team in the UK.
Practical Law is a leading online know-how service providing rigorous peer-reviewed resources such as practice notes current awareness and standard documents to help legal professionals work smarter and advise with confidence. Practical Law is part of Thomson Reuters one of the worlds most trusted providers of answers across law tax compliance government and media.
About the role
As an Assistant Editor in the Practical Law Global team you will use your developing legal knowledge and experience to assist your colleagues devise provide and maintain a wide range of Practical Law content. Working in a supportive global team of highly experienced colleagues you will deal with a breadth of interesting legal and editorial work including:
- Creating new and maintaining existing materials spanning a variety of formats.
- Reviewing and editing content written internally and externally.
- Liaising with contributors in relation to their content including in relation to requests for annual reviews.
- Providing administrative and publishing support ensuring that content is produced in compliance with technical and editorial requirements and helping to maintain internal content database.
- Involvement in AI and LLM models including experimentation prompting and evaluating results.
About You
In addition to this an Assistant Editor will assist:
- With marketing Practical Law Global content;
- The wider Thomson Reuters editorial teams liaising with sales marketing product management technology and segment functions where necessary
The successful candidate is likely to have:
- Undergraduate Law Degree (2:1 or above); or undergraduate degree in a subject other than Law (2:1 or above) and Graduate Diploma in Law
- Knowledge or experience in international or cross border legal practice or legal publishing experience including editing content written by contributors who do not have English as a first language;
- A demonstrable interest and ability in legal writing and presenting complex information in clear and novel (for example visual or interactive) ways.
- Knowledge/interest or experience of using AI and LLM models including prompting techniques.
You will work in a supportive collegiate and flexible environment with plenty of training development and opportunities to explore new areas of law and practice. Thomson Reuters offer a competitive compensation package including a whole suite of benefits.
At Practical Law you will work as part of a market leading team utilising your experience and expertise to contribute to a market leading product.
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Whats in it For You
Hybrid Work Model: Weve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities whether caring for family giving back to the community or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrows challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow lead and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation two company-wide Mental Health Days off access to the Headspace app retirement savings tuition reimbursement employee incentive programs and resources for mental physical and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging flexibility work-life balance and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers Compete to Win Challenge (Y)our Thinking Act Fast / Learn Fast and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice truth and transparency. Together with the professionals and institutions we serve we help uphold the rule of law turn the wheels of commerce catch bad actors report the facts and provide trusted unbiased information to people all over the world.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal tax accounting compliance government and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data intelligence and solutions needed to make informed decisions and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice truth and transparency. Reuters part of Thomson Reuters is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
We are powered by the talents of 26000 employees across more than 70 countries where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity accuracy fairness and transparency are under attack we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
As a global business we rely on the unique backgrounds perspectives and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that we seek talented qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race color sex/gender including pregnancy gender identity and expression national origin religion sexual orientation disability age marital status citizen status veteran status or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
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About Company
Document Intelligence from Thomson Reuters makes analyzing contracts and documents easy by leveraging the power of A.I. and the expertise of Practical Law.
